I was walking home from school today with some of my friends and there were these younger boys - probably in Year 7 (11-12) - in front of us. There were quite a few of them (around 7 or 8?). They stopped ahead of us and they parted to opposite sides of the pavement. I thought they were being nice and letting us pass at first. But they kept looking at us and I knew they were up to trouble. One of them took out a flower and went on his knee and said 'Will You Marry Me?' in a very mocking tone. Of course we just avoided him while my friend said 'Honey no one would marry you even if you begged'. It was a pretty funny experience overall and I didn't mind much because it tends to happen quite often and we normally take it very lightly.
But then one of them said, no one would marry clapped (ugly) girls like us anyway. It still wasn't such of a big problem and we were willing to just let it slide. But just as we were walking away, one of them said
'Go back to your own country'.
It was extremely insulting and racist as we were all minorities. I just remember gaping in disbelief. Someone saying something like this in 2019? In a developed country? In a part of the city where the minorities are everywhere? Especially from a young boy who has grown up in the Gen Z generation where racism isn't tolerated at all? I just couldn't believe my ears. It still makes me angry.
To those ignorant and racist boys:
If all of us minorities went back to our country, your precious country would lose millions and millions of doctors, engineers, IT workers, shopkeepers and more. I'm sorry to say, but your country had become dependent on minorities like us and your country would probably not be able to survive from the sudden loss of jobs.
So good luck trying to get rid of us.